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Full Description
Closing the Loopauthoritative guide to the issues and techniques behind benchmarking sustainable construction. It describes how to measure and achieve sustainability in construction. It contains a palette of issues, indicators and benchmarks, techniques, methods and tools - assembled from practice in the UK and around the world - that will give designers, developers and occupants an overview and understanding of the complex challenges they face to deliver truly 'sustainable' buildings. The book describes the range of sustainable design options and the various tools and techniques that can be used to investigate their success, all with the aim of enabling a more holistic approach to what currently is a fragmented development system.
Contents
Section 1briefing for sustainability; The client's perspective - corporate social responsibility; Benchmarks in context Section 2: Social indicators; Quality of life; Community; Human rights; Health; Thermal comfort Section 3: Environmental indicators; Climate change; Energy; Biodiversity; Transport; Land use; Flooding; Noise; Air pollution; Contaminated land; Water pollution; Waste Section 4: Solutions; Building form and daylighting; The building envelope; insulation and infiltration; Renewable energy and photovoltaics; Sustainable products and materials; Mitigating transport impacts; Environmental management schemes Section 5: Tools and techniques; Environmental impact assessment; Life cycle assessment; Life cycle costing; Impact assessment in the UK - Ecopoints, Breeam and Envest; Ecological foot-printing; Energy Toolkit; Energy use in dwellings; Sociological survey techniques; Regeneration-based checklist; Climate data tools; Vital Signs: Meteonorm and the Nicol Graph; Monitoring waste; Post-occupancy evaluation Section 6: Appendices; Planning Policy Notes; Building Regulations
